South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years.

The number of executions in the U.S. remained near historic lows in 2024 and was mostly carried out in a small group of states.

Alabama carried out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas.

Experts on capital punishment say Alabama's first-ever use of nitrogen gas to execute a man could could gain traction among other states and change how the death penalty is carried out in the United States.

Witnesses watched through a window at an Alabama prison as Kenneth Eugene Smith became the nation's first person to be put to death using nitrogen gas.

The European Union and the U.N. Human Rights Office have expressed regret over the first execution of a man with nitrogen gas in the U.S. state of Alabama.

A man put to death using nitrogen gas shook and convulsed on the gurney as Alabama carried out the first-of-its-kind execution that once again placed the United States at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment.

Alabama has executed a man with nitrogen gas, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again put the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment.

A federal appeals court says Alabama can carry out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas.

A leading Catholic charity is making a last-minute appeal to the U.S. state of Alabama to halt a planned execution using nitrogen gas.

Alabama intends to put a man to death with nitrogen gas this week unless stopped by the courts.

An Alabama execution this week would be the first in the nation to use nitrogen gas.

Alabama is preparing to attempt the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas.

An attorney for an Alabama inmate set to be the nation’s first person ever put to death by nitrogen gas on Friday asked a federal appeals court Friday to block the upcoming execution using “untested methods” Kenneth Smith is scheduled to be executed by the never-used method Thursday at a south Alabama prison.

A federal judge says Alabama can carry out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas later this month.

A divided Alabama Supreme Court has said the state can execute an inmate with nitrogen gas.

Alabama is seeking to become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen.

A scheduled execution in Alabama was called off Thursday after prison officials couldn’t find a suitable vein to inject the lethal drugs into.

Alabama started and then stopped another lethal injection because prison workers were unable to establish the intravenous lines needed to administer a deadly dose.

Alabama has called off the scheduled execution of a man convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher’s wife after the state had trouble establishing venous access and the state faced a midnight deadline to get the execution underway.